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By Jitendra Singh At Asia’s premier air show this year, Aero India, the Make in India lion was emblazoned on every banner. Prime Minister Narendra Modi told us that India must reverse her reputation as...

By Boria Majumdar Two rather contrasting sporting pictures have emerged in the course of the last week. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) just about managed to stay afloat by getting Paytm to...

The Centre’s reported move to expand the direct cash transfer system of handing out subsidies is welcome. Including subsidies in the direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme, as it is called, will cut leakages, help poor...

Kudos to the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) for having detected the fraud being perpetrated by companies that falsify documents to take advantage of the preferential trade agreements that India has with Asean as a...

The government must frame regulations for all schools that span the levels from Kindergarten to Class 12 (K-12 schools, in the jargon), instead of singling out schools affiliated to school boards outside India. The Right...

By Vijay Govindarajan Slowly but steadily, it’s dawning on Western multinationals that it may be a good idea to design products and services in developing economies and, after adding some global tweaks, export them to...

By Chetan Narula Conflict of interest has been the bone of contention for Indian cricket for a quite some time now. Starting with former Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president N Srinivasan...

By Nischala Murthy Kaushik My late grandmothers (paternal / maternal) never really went to a bank their entire life. Simply because most of their financial needs were taken care of by immediate family. Whenever she...

By Umang Das India’s mobile revolution started with one symbolic call on this day 20 years ago. Since then, India has emerged as the world’s second-largest telecom market by subscribers and remains among the fastest...

By Rohan Shravan My first advice to anyone starting up in the hardware sector is to venture out. I flew uninvited to Taiwan and couldn’t imagine how archaic our hardware ecosystem was. We have learnt...

By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay This story can now be told. More than two years ago, when advance copies of my biography of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, rolled out of the press, the conversation veered to possible...

By Boria Majumdar Helder Postiga’s signing as marquee player for Atletico-de-Kolkata for the second season of the Indian Super League (ISL), an announcement made last evening, marks the onset of a very important development in Indian...

By Faisal Farooqui Urban India has been busy this summer petitioning the government for net neutrality. So when on July 16, the department of telecommunications (DoT) released its report on net neutrality, the move was...

By Madan Sabnavis The Chinese meltdown has taken along all the stock markets, indicating the power of globalisation. But a more pertinent issue is what do stock indices indicate in general? Do they tell you...

By R Gopalan & MC Singhi Services have significantly contributed to the structural transformation of the Indian economy. The sector has grown at a faster rate than the GDP growth for the last 12 consecutive...

By Ajai Sahni 88 persons have already been killed in Pakistan-backed Islamist terrorist violence in Jammu & Kashmir in 2015, adding to the 193 killed in 2014. There have been at least 71 ceasefire violations...

By Manvendra Singh Gurdaspur district features in one of the enduring conspiracy theories in Pakistan, a land afflicted with such talk. Many believe that despite a Muslim majority, Gurdaspur was deliberately denied to Pakistan in...

By Desh Gaurav Sekhri Although an expected verdict, the outcome of the spot-fixing trial for the players and bookies has led to an about turn on the three once-tainted former Rajasthan Royals players S Sreesanth,...

By Pranab Dhal Samanta The arrogance of numbers versus the bitterness of the past makes for an unusual political stalemate in Parliament. Yet, this is what seems to have emerged as the defining element of the...

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“Dr.Mohammed Majeed an NRI took 108 patents in Ayurveda medicines and today he is known as the "world ambassador of Ayurveda"Go to google and search Dr.Mohammed Majeed.From 2010 his SAMI LABS are pr...”commented N.P.NAIR Nair03 Aug, 2015 05:54 AM ISTIndia wins patent war on hair loss formulaPost Your Comment